02/03/2026

Flock of 70+ Pintail passing the sea watch hide this morning

An excellent morning sea watching, sadly petered out rapidly c11.00

07.15-12.00  from the hide with OL, Wind SSE 7 Temp 10º,

Brent Goose: 164E   

Shoveler: 158E

Gadwall: 2E

Pintail: 403E

Teal: 10E

Eider: 1 E female
Common Scoter: 97E

Red-breasted Merganser: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: 12E     2W

Curlew: 2E    1W

Sandwich Tern: 2E
Kittiwake: 132E  
Black-headed Gull: 87E

Mediterranean Gull: 10E
Common Gull: 104E
Herring Gull: present
Great Black-backed Gull: 54W

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2E 

Guillemots: 43E    6W
Auk sp: 9E      5W

Red-throated Diver: 158E     16W
Fulmar: 6E 
Gannet: 19E       8W
Cormorant: present no count

Starling: 1 SE out to sea

Harbour Porpoise: 3 present

Grey Seal: 1 present

Elsewhere the 2 Whooper Swans and Cattle Egrets were still at Cockles Bridge. A stratospheric White-tailed Eagle flew over the peninsula seen by Brenda, the alarm it caused was seen by several observers around the peninsula.

Shovelers

Brent Geese

Adult female Eider

The gorgeous Lesser Whitethroat still present in the garden today.